Showing posts with label Surprise. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Surprise. Show all posts

Saturday, April 2, 2016

311: Gosh!

  
Subtitles:

Dede nerde bu kadın ya? Gelmiyor, hayret bir şey!
= Grampa where the heck is this woman? She's not coming, Gosh!

Vocabulary:

dede [=grandfather; grandpa; grampa]

nerde? [also written as “nerede” =where?]

bu [=this]

kadın [=woman; lady]

ya [=an interjection, used to express astonishment; surprise; frustration etc.]

gelmiyor [=he/she is not coming]
(present continuous negative) from gelmek= to come; to turn up 

hayret [=astonishment; wonder]

bir [=one; a/an]

şey [=thing]

hayret bir şey! [=Gosh!; unbelievable!; wow!]

Tip: "bir şey" in spoken Turkish is shortened to "bişey"
  
Video is from the Turkish Series "İlişki Durumu: Karışık"
English Title: "Relationship Status: It's Complicated"

Saturday, March 12, 2016

291: What the heck are you doing here?


Pardon. 
= Excuse me. 

Mediha gelsene! Ne işin var senin burada?
= Mediha do come! What the heck are you doing here?

Beni mi takip ediyorsun yoksa?
= You are following me or what?

Ah ah. Estağfurullah!
= Ah ah. Of course not!



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Vocabulary:

pardon [=excuse me; I beg your pardon]

gelsene [from gelmek= to come]. 
[-sene] added to the stem of the verb gets us the equivalent of "Why don't you come?"; "Do come!"; or "Come on!". "Gel" on the other hand is the imperative form meaning [=come!].
It can be a friendly suggestion or an expression of impatience depending on your tone of voice as in the examples below.

ne? [=what?]

işin? [=your work; your job]. iş [=work; job]

var [=existent; there is/there are]

senin [=your; yours]

burada [=over here]. This is commonly spelled and pronounced as "burda".

beni [=me]

mi [mi, mı, mu, mü] are question suffixes that are added to make questions. 

takip ediyorsun [from takip etmek= to follow; to chase; to track someone]

yoksa [=I wonder if; or what]

estağfurullah [here this means= of course not; don't say that]. The literal meaning of this word is "may God grant me mercy". Its meaning differ according to the situation it is used in. In general, it means "not at all" or "don't mention it" and is sort of a more casual way of saying "you're welcome." I personally hear it often in two situations. When I apologize for being late, the other speaker would immediately utter "estağfurullah"; and secondly when I express my thanks and appreciation. 
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Video is from the Turkish Series "İlişki Durumu: Karışık"
English Title: "Relationship Status: It's Complicated"

Tuesday, March 1, 2016

285: Where the heck did you come from?


Siz nerden çıktınız ya?
= Where the heck did you come from?



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Vocabulary:
siz [=all of you; you all]. "Siz" is also used formally to address a singular person "you". 

nerden [=where from]. It is also written as "nereden", but "nerden" is more common in speech. To say just "where?", use "nerde?"

çıktınız [from çıkmak= to get out]. In the scene above the verb is used in the sense of "appeared" [=where did you appear from?"]. If you are addressing just one person, the question would be "sen nerden çıktın?"

ya =doesn't have a meaning on its own as it serves to show surprise, anger, frustration, dismay etc. depending on the situation in which it is used. Here it is used as an emphasis of the element of surprise and could be translated as "the heck".
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Video is from the Turkish Series "İlişki Durumu: Karışık"
English Title: "Relationship Status: It's Complicated"